"I am a very emotional person. I basically think and feel in emotion, so writing is much easier for me than communicating by voice or by talking to somebody just because I can really get into the emotion more succinctly with writing. So I guess that's what makes me a better writer than speaker."

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Kelly Oxford

#Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.”
“They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.”
“Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God”

Source : "Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects".
“But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.”
“You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.”

Source : Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957
“Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also means finding the gaps in our ideas about others, releasing images that we hold about a manager, a coworker, a friend, or a partner.”
“Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser (1965). “Theodore Dreiser; His Autobiography”

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